Zelenskyy says a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia has been set

25 October 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the United States and Russia is set for November, in an attempt to restart stalled peace talks.
He said in a Ukrainian television interview that Ukraine is ready to talk and that a territorial question must be addressed at leadership level.
United States envoy Steve Witkoff met Zelenskyy and European leaders in Oslo and then met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg.
Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said Putin had agreed in principle to restart talks after 10 November and that the talks would focus on a post-conflict security framework.
Three earlier rounds had been held, two in Abu Dhabi and one in Geneva, and produced little beyond prisoner-of-war exchanges.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb took part in the Oslo meeting.